The UK should lead by example on carbon capture and storage, the country's Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband said.  

In an interview in The Sunday Times, Mr Miliband wouldn't say whether or not he would award Eon CCS money to build a coal-fired station to be built in the UK.

Miliband wouldn't say whether or not he would award Eon CCS money to build a coal-fired station to be built in the UK.

"It is very difficult to reconcile security of supply with our low-carbon obligations, but I don't want to anticipate what I have to announce to parliament in the coming weeks and months on our approach to this issue because it is a very sensitive matter," The Times reported Miliband as saying.

Miliband said "the low-carbon future" will be based around nuclear, renewables and clean fossil fuels.

This week Miliband will present five proposals for the Severn Barrage and Tuesday he will move forward the UK's new nuclear building program by inviting the industry to propose sites to build new nuclear reactors, The Times said.

-London Bureau, Dow Jones Newswires.